Startup for os 8 //? mark and face in folder symbol

when trying to reinstall os 8 on an imac 266 the computer froze (i am new to this) now the computer gives me a grey screen with a folder/face symbol? that switches back and forth between it and a ? question mark symbol --- i have tried to restart it holding the x key but nothing-- i fear the os did not reinstall but maybe half way -is there a way to reboot from the cd disc again? or totally reset the computer? the computer worked ok before and booted up i am trying to take it from 8 to os 9 or beyond...i would like to upgrade the hard drive but not sure where to buy one for this old computer
any help is appreciated thanks

Hi, pangeyser -
...i have tried to restart it holding the x key but nothing....
Holding down the X key is an instruction (to those machines coded for it) to boot to OSX (X as in OSX). The startup keyboard command which tells the machine to boot to a CD is to hold down the C key from the start of booting (C as in CD).
If the CD is in the drive, the machine should eventually boot to to it anyway if left alone long enough - the flashing/alternating folder and ? symbols indicate the machine can not find a valid OS on the designated boot drive from which to boot; if you wait long enough, the machine will time-out in looking for that and will look elsewhere for the first bootable OS it can find.
One benign possibility is that the machine is still looking for the CD, rather than for an OS on the hard drive. Once you get the machine booted to the CD again, try opening Startup Disk control panel - if the new OS on the hard drive is selectable, do so, and then try a normal restart.

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